Hillary Clinton spent 2023 and 2024 raising money for Joe Biden and rallying donors to his cause.
Now she says the whole thing was a "terrible mistake."
The woman who lost to Donald Trump in 2016 wants you to believe she saw this coming.
Two Years of Cheerleading, One Night of Revisionist History
Clinton made her remarks Monday night at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, sitting down with New Yorker editor David Remnick to deliver her verdict on the 2024 disaster.
"He made a terrible mistake," she said. "He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy, and for the country."
She went further – claiming any Democrat who emerged from a real primary would have beaten Trump.
"I believe whoever emerged from that contest, whether it was a vice president, or a governor, or a senator, or anybody else, would have beaten Donald Trump," Clinton said.
What she didn't mention is what she was saying in 2022.
"Let's go with the person most likely to win," Clinton said back then – and that person, in her view, was Joe Biden.
According to the Washington Examiner, Clinton served as a key campaign surrogate for Biden's 2024 bid and actively defended his candidacy.
In December 2023, NBC News reported she was already working to mobilize donors and build the Biden-Harris coalition heading into the election year.
After Biden's catastrophic debate against Trump in June 2024, Clinton still publicly backed his decision to stay in the race – and was privately pushing donors to stick with him even as the party began to fracture.
Now, almost two years later, she's calling it a "terrible miscalculation."
The Democrat Blame Game Nobody Wins
Clinton's remarks land in the middle of an ongoing Democrat civil war over who's responsible for the 2024 collapse.
The DNC spent months on a formal autopsy report – then sat on it.
When DNC chair Ken Martin finally released a version last month, he issued a statement the same day calling it a product that "wasn't ready for prime time. Not even close."
The report didn't even bother to interview Biden, Harris, Tim Walz, or most of their top aides.
Democrats are now pointing fingers in every direction.
Some blame Biden for running.
Others blame the party for bypassing a primary after he dropped out.
Others blame Harris for being unable to separate herself from a deeply unpopular administration.
A handful blamed Gaza.
What nobody in Democrat leadership is willing to say plainly: they covered up Biden's obvious cognitive decline for years, propped him up through a full term, and then handed the nomination to a candidate who lost the popular vote, the Electoral College, and every swing state on the map.
Hillary Clinton Is Not the Person to Learn Lessons From
Trump won because Democrats put politics ahead of honesty – and Hillary Clinton is Exhibit A.
This is the woman who lost to Trump in 2016 – a race she was favored to win by a wide margin.
The race she spent years afterward blaming on James Comey, Russia, Bernie Sanders, the electoral college, and anyone else within reach.
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She's a two-time presidential loser offering strategy advice to a party in freefall, and the media is treating it like wisdom.
Democrats spent 2023 and 2024 in "total denial" – Clinton's own words Monday night – about how badly Biden had declined.
The people who knew the truth stayed quiet, raised no alarms, and kept the machine running.
The same people are now lining up to say they saw it coming all along.
The fact that Hillary Clinton is still being asked her opinion in 2026 tells you everything about whether anything has changed.
Sources:
- Cameron Arcand, "Hillary Clinton Torches Biden Over 'Terrible Mistake,'" Townhall, June 16, 2026.
- "Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden reelection bid was a 'terrible mistake,'" Washington Examiner, June 16, 2026.
- "Hillary Clinton: Biden damaged his legacy and the country by running for reelection in 2024," One America News Network, June 16, 2026.
- "Hillary Clinton Says Biden Made 'Terrible Mistake' Running for Reelection in 2024," Hannity.com, June 16, 2026.
- "Democrats finally release 2024 election autopsy after criticism," Axios, May 21, 2026.
- "She's with him: Hillary Clinton steps out as a key player in Biden's re-election effort," NBC News, December 11, 2023.